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The Abstinence Movement is Sweeping America-Part 1

Do you or the youth in your life want to remain abstinent until marriage?  You’re not alone. Evangelicals are holding Purity Balls where teen-age girls pledge to wait until marriage to have sex, according to an online article in The Sun, a News UK company, at thesunco.uk. They do this in a ceremony where fathers and daughters dress up and dance. While they are having fun and bonding the fathers and daughters agree to the abstinence pledge and the daughters receive a purity ring which will be given to the daughters’ future husband. A teen who attended a Purity Ball in Louisiana told...

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Is Abstinence from Sexual Activity Outside of Marriage the Expected Standard for School Age Children?

In 1996 Congress passed the Title V abstinence education program law.  This program (theoretically; in DC the funds were not actually used for abstinence education, for example) allotted funds to states that requested them for abstinence programs that had to follow these guidelines: A. Has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, psychological and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity.  B. Teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school-age children.  C. Teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the...

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